HEARTS AND HOMES BY TOHQUALITY

Hearts and homes

12 Points to show you are a Grief Habitat
1. home will wear you your father's shoes
and your feet will be boys lost in a vast city
with echoes and owls and bit of memories broken like spines
2. fear will become a known thing,
your heart will walk out of this place
you will see ghosts changing into new cloths
3. you still cannot define what home is,
you miss your mother, you drown in her eyes
a body of water with memories swimming like loosed emotions
4. when your father died with the JTF
your house became a cave for dusts and birds
the sun melts in your head and you
5. cry 6. try 7. die
8. lie to your feet, tell them you want to make a circle
with your toes, tell them you want to find fresh flowers
for papa's graves, walk again into that street
9. what do you find here now? new life growing through the skull
of a place where cloths tear like the skin of barbecued bodies in bombs
10. a little boy is making his throat a pipe of song, his mother's saree
is dancing in the wind, his friends are wheeling
11. tyres towards their home, nylon houses with happy people, a city
breaks from the mouth of peace again, home just dissolved in water
12. and the urge to say the name runs deep, you part your lips
and mutter, B-O-R-N-U.

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